John Divola is an American visual artist, professor and photographer.
He describes is own work as an exploration of the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific.
His most recent photobook is "Chroma" (Skinnerboox, 2020). Among is other published photography work are "Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert" (Nazraeli, 2004), "Three Acts" (Aperture, 2006), "As Far as I Could Get" (Prestel, 2013), and "Vandalism" (Mack, 2018).
© Portrait taken from an article on FK Magazine (in English, uncredited)
Presentation by Skinnerboox: " Immediately after Zuma I made some rather straightforward photographs of the abandoned MGM Studios New York City back lot, in Culver City, Los Angeles. These were in black and white. I then decided to try something entirely different and around 1980 I started a body of work about things you can't photograph: Gravity,...